NATIONAL ACADEMY OF FIRE AND SAFETY. (NAFS) BHOPAL (India's No.1 Fire & Safety Education Network) www.nafsmp.com Contact :- 0755 4909101, 9303004101 Email :- nafsbpl@gmail.com Nafs - Bhopal pay tributes to the memory of the fire fighters who gave their life in the line of duty The 14th April is observed as a fire service day by all fire brigade services all over India. The Bombay explosion in which  a large foreign ship at Mumbai port with million liters of lubricating oil barrels, million tons of bales of cotton along with highly inflammable  materials like detonators, currency notes, gold & gold bricks exploded which was in shift name SS FORT STIKINE.  On this day of 14th April in 1944 this steamer caught fire and before anyone could realize it, a major tragedy happened.  The color of the sky changed to black with smoke, and the fire could be seen from a long distance. All the people of Mumbai, several volunteers, American Red Cross opened their doors for fire fighters. Several doctors, nurses were on duty and they rushed from their hospitals to attend to the big heap of burned and broken dead bodies. As many as 66 fire brigade staff’s brave men perished during the firefighting & rescue operations. To commemorate these ‘jawans’, fire brigade observe this day as a fire service day every year since then all over India this day is observed as NATIONALL FIRE SERVICE DAY  to pays tributes to the memory of the fire fighters who gave their life in the line of duty.